Below is the letter to the Press Compaints Commission over the Jewish Telegraph’s publication of a letter inciting the killing of Israeli journalist Gideon Levy. Levy recently spoke at meetings across Scotland. It is followed by the PCC’s reply suggesting that SPSC may not be able to take this complaint further, though we are going to…
Sauchiehall St Stall Glasgow Branch has a stall most Saturdays (2-4pm) at the junction of Sauchiehall Street and Hope Street. Please check the FULL CALENDAR of events to confirm that it will take place this week. Come along and help raise awareness of Israel’s crimes and of the opportunity to provide effective solidarity through boycott, divestment…
by Nehemia Shtrasler, Haaretz, 5 Sept 2010 “Human-rights organizations in Europe are essentially running campaigns to boycott Israeli products. They are demonstrating at supermarkets, brandishing signs against Israeli goods. Worker organizations, with millions of members, send circulars to their people calling on them to forgo Israeli products. I talked with farmers who say there are…
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Anti-Israel boycott by Muslim shops goes Scotland-wide by Jasper Hamill, Sunday Herald, 5 Sept 2010 Khalid Bashir, owner of the Red Sea Food Store in Nicholson Square, Edinburgh, is already boycotting Israeli goods and has agreed to display a poster. He said: “People ask about it all the time, but I am able to tell…
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Report by Tayside for Justice in Palestine: Photos here of the Dundee shop keepers who stopped stocking Israeli dates. All shops approached accepted and removed Israeli dates from the shelves. Due to a campaign during last Ramadan none of the shops had any dates clearly marked as Israeli, rather this…
The Scottish members of IJAN – the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network – issued this statement: ‘It’s absolutely imperative that Jewish people speak and act in support of the boycott of Israel, whose aim is to stop the demolitions in Palestine and the destruction of Palestine. tear down the wall. As Jewish anti-zionists across Scotland, we…
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